More than 40K remain without power in New Hampshire following winter storm - WMUR Manchester

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Thousands of Granite State energy customers stay without powerfulness Saturday aft a ample tempest dropped much than a ft of snowfall successful immoderate parts of the state.As of 3 p.m. Saturday, astir 44,000 customers inactive did not person power, down from astir 60,500 outages astir 9 a.m.Utility crews are moving to reconstruct powerfulness to thousands of customers who mislaid it.Eversource had astir of the outages with astir 35,000 customers affected, down from 47,500 customers affected Saturday morning. Eversource said they are moving arsenic safely and rapidly arsenic imaginable to measure harm and marque communities safe.Eversource besides said that crews person restored powerfulness to much than 40,000 customers since the tempest started Friday. Hundreds of further crews are arriving to assistance Saturday morning, Eversource said. >> View updated New Hampshire powerfulness outage mapsA warming structure was opened successful Lebanon astatine the Lebanon Middle School for residents without power."We brought on immoderate snacks. We person a cot for idiosyncratic who hasn’t been capable to slumber each night. Some blankets, things similar that. Try to get blistery cocoa disposable arsenic well. Something to marque the time a small spot warmer," said Bill Stearns, unpaid of the Upper Valley Medical Reserve Core. >> Latest ForecastThe State Emergency Operations Center activated astatine 8 a.m. to assistance with the powerfulness outages passim the state, according to New Hampshire Emergency Management and Homeland Security."About an inch and a fractional of snowfall truly provides that tipping constituent and surely sections of the authorities received good implicit an inch and a fractional of snowfall and it’s bedewed and heavy. There’s a dense h2o content. So that caused the damage,” said Robert Buxton, manager of New Hampshire Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

MANCHESTER, N.H. —

Thousands of Granite State energy customers stay without powerfulness Saturday aft a ample tempest dropped much than a ft of snowfall successful immoderate parts of the state.

As of 3 p.m. Saturday, astir 44,000 customers inactive did not person power, down from astir 60,500 outages astir 9 a.m.

Utility crews are moving to reconstruct powerfulness to thousands of customers who mislaid it.

Eversource had astir of the outages with astir 35,000 customers affected, down from 47,500 customers affected Saturday morning.

Eversource said they are moving arsenic safely and rapidly arsenic imaginable to measure harm and marque communities safe.

Eversource besides said that crews person restored powerfulness to much than 40,000 customers since the tempest started Friday. Hundreds of further crews are arriving to assistance Saturday morning, Eversource said.

>> View updated New Hampshire powerfulness outage maps

A warming structure was opened successful Lebanon astatine the Lebanon Middle School for residents without power.

"We brought on immoderate snacks. We person a cot for idiosyncratic who hasn’t been capable to slumber each night. Some blankets, things similar that. Try to get blistery cocoa disposable arsenic well. Something to marque the time a small spot warmer," said Bill Stearns, unpaid of the Upper Valley Medical Reserve Core.

>> Latest Forecast

The State Emergency Operations Center activated astatine 8 a.m. to assistance with the powerfulness outages passim the state, according to New Hampshire Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

"About an inch and a fractional of snowfall truly provides that tipping constituent and surely sections of the authorities received good implicit an inch and a fractional of snowfall and it’s bedewed and heavy. There’s a dense h2o content. So that caused the damage,” said Robert Buxton, manager of New Hampshire Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

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